World Class Baseball

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Item Condition

Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact item. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

Pull up a seat in the bleachers for the TurboGrafx-16's first season. Hudson Soft's World Class Baseball arrived in the console's first year in North America, and it is a brisk, arcade-minded ballgame that gets you from the first pitch to the final out without fuss. In Japan it was released as Power League, the first entry in a long-running PC Engine baseball series, and this was the version that brought it west under a new name.

The action plays out from the familiar pitcher-versus-batter view, and the toolkit is fuller than you might expect from a 1989 game. Throw sliders and change-ups, try to pick runners off base, call in a relief pitcher when your starter tires, or lay down a bunt to move a runner over. Twelve teams with invented rosters fill the league, and you can play a quick exhibition game, chase a pennant, take on a friend or square off against the computer's Turbo Champs.

What makes it fun today is how quickly it moves. Innings fly by, the controls are simple enough to learn within a game, and the roar of the crowd and crack of the bat give it the energy of a day at the park. It is the kind of sports game that rewards a couple of friends and a free afternoon more than a stat sheet.

As one of the TurboGrafx-16's earliest sports releases and the American debut of Hudson's Power League series, it is a fitting piece of the console's launch-era library and a fun look at the franchise that kept PC Engine owners playing ball for years.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1989
Publisher
NEC Home Electronics
Developer
Hudson Soft
Genre
Sports
Players
Single player
About the game

This game belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Nothing takes you out to the ballgame like World Class Baseball! It tests all your baseball knowledge and skills. Bunt. Throw a slider. A change-u. Pick runners off base. Call in a relief pitcher. Hear the roar of the crowd and the crack of the bat. Play another player. Play against the computer. Play the Turbo Champs. Knock the dirt from your spikes. You're up!

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.

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